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title: When she had done her work, she used to go into the chimney-corner,… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: When she had done her work, she used to go into the chimney-corner, and sit down among cinders and ashes, which made her commonly be called Cinder-breech; but the youngest, who was not so rude and uncivil as the eldest, called her Cinderilla. Who acts: wife, cinders. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales o
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\], sentence 23

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When she had done her work, she used to go into the chimney-corner, and sit down among cinders and ashes, which made her commonly be called Cinder-breech; but the youngest, who was not so rude and uncivil as the eldest, called her Cinderilla.

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**Who acts:** wife, cinders · **What happens:** do, use, go, sit down, make, call · **To what, where:** work, chimney corner, cinders, wife, commonly · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Followed the King, Who Went Up First"\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, cinders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg29021:11:23
# text = When she had done her work, she used to go into the chimney-corner, and sit down among cinders and ashes, which made her commonly be called Cinder-breech; but the youngest, who was not so rude and uncivil as the eldest, called her Cinderilla.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
20	down	down	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	among	among	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	cinders	cinder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	commonly	commonly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	parataxis	_	_
32	Cinder	cinder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	breech	breech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
42	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
43	so	so	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	parataxis	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	uncivil	uncivil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	conj	_	_
47	as	as	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	conj	_	_
52	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	Cinderilla	Cinderilla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · perfect | wife | wife's work |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 2 | **use** | past | wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* |  |  | the chimney corner |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into corner=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **sit down** | infinitive | wife *not said here* |  |  | cinders and ashes |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among cinder=Location |
| 5 | **make** | past | cinders and ashes | wife |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product |
| 6 | **call** | infinitive · passive |  | commonly |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 7 | **not** **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as the eldest; rude *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **call** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **work** |  | wife |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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